Geography and History

At Greenways Primary Academy, we aim to foster individual growth and to provide children with the knowledge that will be valuable in life. Through the planning and delivery of our curriculum, we aim to challenge and stimulate their intellect, enabling them to achieve high academic standards. All pupils in our academy are entitled to receive a broad and ambitious curriculum in the humanities. Geography and history will feature significantly in the curriculum taught at the academy. A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. A high-quality geography education will inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.

Both the history and geography curriculum have been designed and written by the staff at Greenways. It ensures that the core content of the National Curriculum is covered, as well as ensuring that there is progression for children over time. The way in which this has been planned is through the use of key concepts in each subject (e.g. monarchy in history and land usage in geography) to ensure that children are revisiting key concepts and are being challenged to think about them with increasingly difficult task design and subject content. To ensure that this knowledge is embedded, we have planned deliberate opportunities for children to engage with and answer key disciplinary questions which allow the children to think deeply and to use the substantive knowledge they have been taught to engage with each subject at the highest level. By working closely with our KS3 partners, the curriculum equips the children at Greenways to enter KS3 ready to immerse themselves in the KS3 curriculum.